{"id":2144,"date":"2009-01-21T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2009-01-21T19:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T00:22:00","slug":"mid-week-musings-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=2144","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Week Musings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can you feel that warm front of hope drifting up from Washington DC? No? Not yet? Well, regardless, here are a few random news stories that caught my eye today:<\/p>\n

1) For anyone preparing for their SATs<\/span>, here’s a handy word association to keep in mind: Sheila Fraser is to Paul Martin as Kevin Page is to Stephen Harper<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Today, Page answers the question on everyone’s<\/span> mind – how long will it take Stephen Harper to undo all the economic gains<\/a> the Liberals made during their time in power? You can read all the gloomy projections here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2) The League of Below Average Prime Ministers Strikes Back<\/a>! Fresh from their annual Christmas pilgrimage to the grave of Arthur Meighen, the League of Below Average Prime Ministers has decided to re-iterate<\/a> their call for green infrastructure spending.<\/p>\n

3) The Liberals are drafting their own budget up <\/a>– it’s unclear as to whether this will be made public or if it’s a “just in case” document, but I like the optics of it. It shows you’re ready to govern and that you have a plan.<\/p>\n

4) Not that they’ll need to implement it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

5) When I first heard that Iggy was spending his holidays finishing his book, I kind of had a “huh? remind me again why he was in such a hurry to take over?”<\/em> reaction. But now that we know some details about the book<\/a>, it’s clear it could be a very useful political document. One of the biggest knocks on Ignatieff<\/span> remains his time outside of the country. And I think it’s a fair critique, since you want a leader who truly understands what it means to be Canadian running the show. Well, if Ignatieff<\/span> can show he understands Canada in this book, it might go a long way towards easing some of the doubts that voters may have of him. At the very least, it will help him win the votes of the dozens<\/em> of poli-sci students who will be forced to read it.<\/p>\n

6) To drift off-topic for a minute, I must say that both BSG<\/span> and 24 have been top notch since their January returns (although I could do with the constant monologuing about the pros and cons of torture use on 24…if I wanted that, I’d read a Michael Ignatieff<\/span> essay<\/span>. I kid, I kid<\/em>.). Tonight, Lost is back with a vengeance<\/span>. Woo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can you feel that warm front of hope drifting up from Washington DC? No? Not yet? Well, regardless, here are a few random news stories that caught my eye today: 1) For anyone preparing for their SATs, here’s a handy word association to keep in mind: Sheila Fraser is to Paul Martin as Kevin Page […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}